Here,, Dilip read that. I think you might be more open to read that since it comes from a secular commie paper - Hindustan Times.

From the above link.... Pretty much the same thing I said. ======

This bias in the points system clearly reveals that the Mandal Commission did not want to draw attention to the fact that its intended beneficiaries were really not economically and educationally backward. This is to be expected, as the castes favoured for reservation by Mandal were never really discriminated against in history as the Scheduled Castes were. That they chose not to seek education and urban jobs as the so-called ‘forward’ castes did still does not make them a once persecuted category or community.